Commonwealth v. Deveau

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• failure of counsel to object at trial “is a sign that what was said sounded less exciting at trial than appellate counsel now would have it seem”
• no error where prosecutor did not suggest that jury had a duty to convict because of the victim’s suffering, and jury’s common sense would enable them to hear comments as “rhetorical flourish” regarding inconsistencies in witnesses’ testimony

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).